By Robert Hiini Students, teachers and Archbishop Hickey refused to let a vocal disruption dampen their celebration of Indigenous peoples and culture at a special NAIDOC week liturgy convened at St Mary’s Cathedral on Wednesday, 6 July. School students sit around figurative campfires in St Mary's Cathedral during NAIDOC week celebrations on 6 July. Photo: Robert Hiini A local...

A liturgical deviant scrutinises the New Missal... By Fr Laurie Bisset I was born and ordained a son of the Tridentine Mass and lived 45 years a struggling presider of the New Ordo. Now with our New Translation, in the soon to be 47th year of my priestly life, I feel I have been born again. The blood of love, devotion, reverence, God orientation and humility is once again flowing in my...

Changing individuals through peacebuilding By John Thavis ROME (CNS) - When Sudanese Bishop Paride Taban of Torit wanted to help stop traditional cattle raiding by rival groups of young men, he turned to Catholic peace-building organisation IKV Pax Christi from the Netherlands. The raiding had become extremely dangerous and violent, and Women carrying crosses in the country of Sudan wh...

By Bronwen Dachs CAPE TOWN, South Africa (CNS) - The national director of Zimbabwe’s Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace said he fears that priests could be victimised after a recent commission statement urging political leaders to intervene to stop politically motivated skirmishes in the capital, Harare. Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe attends the World Food Secur...

Waters of humanism "Even a traditionally Catholic people can feel negatively or assimilate almost unconsciously the repercussions of a culture that ends by insinuating a mentality in which the Gospel message is openly rejected or subtly hindered.” Words such as these could only be voiced by a person of great intellect, faith and courage, such as Pope Benedict XVI, as he...

Question: My cousin, in her twenties, is sharing a flat with a young man. She says they are just friends and there is nothing intimate between them. Nonetheless, their living together somehow doesn’t seem right to me. Is it?  Claudette Colbert and Clarke Gable in the famous "Walls of Jericho" scene in Frank Capra's 1934 film "It Happened One Night". Image...

By Archbishop Timothy Dolan Archbishop of New York Almost two weeks ago — hauntingly, on the Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist whom King Herod would behead because the saint dared to defend the God-given truth about marriage - our State sadly attempted a re-definition of marriage. Is there anything left to say? Yes. For one, thanks to those courageous millions who vali...

It seems that everywhere I look there are people who are going out of their way to annoy me! People who insist on driving at 70km even though the limit is 90km. People who have personal phone conversations on the train. People who chew with their mouths open. The list could take up this entire column! There are situations, however, that are beyond ‘annoying’, situations that can a...

Lorraine Murphy ocds as told to Deb Warrier My faith is a love relationship with the One whom I know loves me. I try to live out His beatitudes – the attitudes to life that are revealed in the Gospels. My prayers are: Liturgical eg Eucharist and The Divine Office in regard to Morning, Evening and Night Prayer; and Meditation on Sacred Scripture using Lectio Divina. I am mindful of my L...

It’s one of the most remarkable stories in the US Catholic Church: a strong-talking, high-profile priest popular with hundreds of thousands of viewers has walked out of the priesthood in apparent disgrace... By Dennis Sadowski WASHINGTON (CNS) - Father John Corapi said he will not follow the order of his Religious Superior to leave his home in Montana to live in community with fe...